Seriously, I'm such a geezer.
My fantastic friend Micki keeps giving me subtle little hints that I should join Facebook, such as mentioning it EVERY TIME WE TALK and slipping complete instructions for getting started into emails.
Apparently this week just hasn't been weird enough for me yet, because I just gave in, went over and hopped on the Facebook train.
That's me, looking all pensive and thoughtful in Sid Fleischman's living room. My son took the picture.
My first thought on seeing said picture: "Oh, my God, I look exactly like my mom."
My second thought: "My mom's a fox."
I'm just saying.
Any pointers re navigating the whole Facebook maze -- or, heck, just letting me know what the point is -- are most welcome.
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Friend me! And don't get involved with all the quizzes and games and junk. There isn't enough time in the world for that. Stick with the basics and it's fun--I like seeing the comments by friends I don't get to see all that often.
You can also start a group on there for the magazine (see Dale McGowan's Parenting Beyond Belief page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Parenting-Beyond-Belief/77773055518 ), posting updates and such. It's good viral publicity.
I've been found by and reacquainted with some long lost friends which is nice, but mostly I use it to keep up with extended family and to spy on my girls. ; )
Sorry, but I have friends that have been trying to get me on facebook forever and I have resisted so far. I am not on mySpace or Facebook and I definitely do not tweet. Hope that your experience is positive, but I am on the computer enough all ready and need to just experience REAL life, don't you know?
So far as I can figure, the site is like a newsfeed from friends. I still haven't figured out how each posted item is treated, but then I've only been messing with it for a couple weeks.
The format is very blan, and seems to lack any sophistication in programming. I mean, to me, it looks like a highschool programmer's first .net project. But then again, that's what I think .net programming was intended to be.
But honestly, I’m kind of an analyst. Some people call me anal. But I just don’t get it. I have found a couple old friends on Facebook, that I was unable to find without it; so Kudos to Facebook! On the other hand, I wonder what lay behind the vanilla platform.
I’m not exactly sure what the purpose of the whole friends thing is… You don’t know people, so you go to Facebook to find some?. For example, why are Friends recommended to me? I figure that I am being referred at random to people that share common interests as I have listed in my profile.
Then when I find friends, their friends are listed in my Recommended friends list, which I still haven’t found out how to turn off. I mean, I don’t really think these people being recommended to me have any interest in becoming my friend, or maybe they do, but why? We could all perhaps become friends and that would be great! From my limited experience, it’s lame.
I enjoy the updates from my couple friends that show up on my Wall when they update their status… I’m not sure though, what that means, since the numb nuts behind Facebook still doesn’t seem to see the need for an easy to use help engine.
On the face of it, (pun intended) I’m still not all that too glad to share my social network with the world, and have limited my use of Facebook to attempting to add friends I cannot connect with otherwise (those that I don’t see in person often at all). It just seems stupid to connect my entire social network by means of a social networking surveillance apparatus such as Facebook. Call me a conspiranoid, but I think it’s dumb.
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